I can't remember whether methadone is an opiate or an opioid.
Methadone is an opiate (narcotic) analgesics. Methadone works to treat pain by changing the way the brain and nervous system respond to pain.
But here is the problem, that doctors sometimes don't read or don't want to read, in my case when i mentioned i was a
Tegretol person (Carbamazepine) he should have known better, cuz
Carbamazepine works by 'changing or blocking the brain' so what it does, it prevents seizures, and what Methadone did, was 'blocked the Tegretol/Carbamazepine' so the worst was i did get the relap on the seizures, plus the addiction and then the withdrawls and then hell ! Now i'm clean of Methadone, at least got out of it, but the problem is that they haven't been able to regulate my brain so Tegretol/Carbamazepine worked as it did before the Methadone. Hope this doesn't take for ever. [
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Either way, an antidepressant can really help in the beginning of recovery. Keep it open as an option for a safety net in case things get rough on your rollercoaster ride -- dealing with these Lexapro effects is nothing in comparison to dealing with a relapse. I promise you that antidepressants won't cause you to steal, cheat, lie, sell your body or end up in handcuffs in a state-sponsored taxi. If you relapse on methadone or switch drugs, all bets are off, as you well know. I'd be happy to chat with you more about this, but not on this forum. It's for Lexapro issues. Feel free to email me directly, or we can start another topic discussion somewhere else about antidepressants and substance abuse recovery.
Now they are trying with
Xanax (Alprazolam), but i still think that
Lorazepam (Ativan)works better, because this one helps for seizures at the same time, and Xanax helps for Panic Attacks, which in my case I think some doctors are confused, when I tell them I have a relap on my seizures, they go on, and on, and on ..... that they are Panic Attacks. [:0] and then is when we start on 'chasing circles' and the cicle of discussion goes on and on ....
Antidepressants, i had a horrible episode with
Zoloft, they put me in about 3 years ago, i had all the side effects you can imagine, went back to the doctor, and she said 'give it time'
so I did, after 10 days I had a constant diarrhea, was completly out of focus, tremor, headache and long etcetera ... that finally took me to the ER, and that was the end of Zoloft, and the little withdrawls i had, wasn't nothing compare to the side effects.
I have been following very closely all what you and everybody writes about Lexapro, cuz when i started to get out of Methadone, they offer me the Lexapro, and for one reason or the other, I was scared to it, and never took it, there it is somewhere in a drawer ....
I relapsed on smoking while trying to come off this stuff for the 2nd time back in May
I can't say I relapsed on smoking, cuz i never quit it
and honestly now I think that after going through the 'devil pills', cigarrets are as candy.
Feel free to email me directly, or we can start another topic discussion somewhere else about antidepressants and substance abuse recovery
The same goes for you, and i will be more than happy to offer myself as a person that could help others to get out of the [f**] pills, and I promised myself that if I ever get out completly and beeing able to control my pain in level 3-4 with alaternative medicine, i will start working as a volunteer in Healling Centers and Detox Centers and those for low income people, cuz the ones that you pay $1,200 or more for 5 days are easy to find, but finding the help we all need, when the income is low, those are the hard to find.
Take care !
Kristy
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